Tuesday, February 22, 2005
i miss the parties at doug and sally's.
whenever you'd find the ONYX CAFE dead on a Friday or Saturday night, it's because
everyone's at DOUG and SALLY'S.
Posted at 10:25 am by paul_posadas
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2nd time around. COOL.. is this for real?
Posted at 04:40 am by paul_posadas
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Monday, February 21, 2005
so, i widened up the lens opening by 0.40mm and i am getting consistent exposures on a 12 exposure roll of film, both b/w and color rated at 400, indoors and outdoors with the standard (so they say) f/8 opening. i am so ecstatic. "no more wasting film."
my next target was to create "f/11" to correspond to the "sunny" icon, since the "cloudy" is already represented by "f/8". other "holga users" create another opening that rides on the swinging arm
window (which is a logical thing to do), and of course this should be smaller to give a full stop to f/11. while i was snipping my b/w negs. i got the idea of using the base acetate of the film to go onto this arm window instead of trying to create a smaller opening with some other type of material. i measured the film acetate base using a light meter placing the film between a light source and the meter (an old minolta IV with spot), i consequently got a full stop reading.
of course you'll need to take the camera apart to get to this swinging arm window. check this
"holga" user's website
http://www.geocities.com/tpe123/projects/holga/holgamod.html for more
modification details. anyway, below are the photo results i got from using this acetate base as my secondary lens opening.
notice on the right photo with the acetate base. you can clearly see that i did get my full stop. and also compare with the left photo with the shadow casted on the driveway, it disappeared. neat-o. now i can start shooting with the holga with confidence knowing what it can or cannot do. btw, my other "toy" is a 1958 zorki fed-2 russian leica copy cat and i am loving it as much as i am loving
the holga as much as i am loving the discontinued russian lubitel 166 universal.
Posted at 10:36 pm by paul_posadas
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Sunday, February 20, 2005
last night i got a call from friend "darrell" and he says that the "tribal cafe" is open and that it was pretty happening and that there were alot of ex- "onyx" regulars hanging and patronizing the place. darrell, (which is not his true name), gave me pure B.S. that when i got there (corner of union and temple. yep, in l.a.'s historic filipino town), there were tables with chairs on them at the corner of the huge room and drop cloth(s) not to mention the smell of paint. joshua jose wasn't around but DAVID ROCKELLO was. david was coordinating the painters on what color/texture blah.blah paint goes up on the wall. let me rephrase. more like artists painting their own murals in segments of the wall. i personally liked them. i thought this cafe is just going to be one of those regular coffee joints where you can have a cup of coffee and donuts then split. NOPE, based on what i've seen of the place, i was wrong. I WONDER IF HE'LL SERVE CAFE BUSTELO?
Posted at 02:10 pm by paul_posadas
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"3 bustelo cans on a stool." ©2005 Paul Posadas
just felt like sharing the little modifications i made to the Holga 120 CFN which a lot
of holga owners have illustrated on their own sites. i don't recall seeing a "how to
get your subjects centered" on this camera so i've created my own.
so when you peer through the viewfinder for composing. the line should
be your basis for centering.
next step is to get your subjects closer by putting a stopper to
instead of minimum focusing at 3 ft. you can have it down to 2ft.
this one i copied. i forgot the name of the site i picked this idea from.
so here illustrates how the "3 bustelo cans on a stool." is done.
B F D.....P A U L !!
Posted at 01:26 pm by paul_posadas
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